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The Lacanian Left, Self-Help, and the Family feat. Richard Seymour
Emancipations Podcast
The Paradox of Privilege Discourse on the Left
I think privilege discourse on the left is problematic, because it creates a paradoxical standard which no one can live up to. It selects people from the working class that did manage through hard work but then they are sold and packaged back to the working class as the new standard. That just feeds the masochistic drive, because that's not it. So this myth of the entrepreneur has these two heads, this kind of radical Hayekian head, and this kind of liberal meritocratic one. Both must be rejected. But in terms of how that ideology is fought for in practice and how it's lived, it can be lived as, we're going to liberate ourselves from the state, we
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